Disclimer: I know it is not in my usual style to talk about a non-animated film, but since it is so similar to an animated film that I previously wrote about, I figured it would count. This article contains spoilers for Perfect Blue and Black Swan. Read with caution. Also note that the following video…
Tsuritama is a show about fishing in the port town of Enoshima, Japan… No wait, that’s not entirely right. Er, let’s go with this: Tsuritama is about a young boy named Yuki who suffers from severe social anxiety and learns to open up with the help of an eclectic group of friends through fishing in…
The first James Bond movie I saw starring the late and dearly missed Roger Moore was Live and Let Die in high school. I grew up with Sean Connery’s classics in heavy rotation on VHS at home and the adventures of Pierce Brosnan playing out in theaters and on my Nintendo 64, and while popular logic dictates…
The Censored Eleven are a selection of old cartoons that were censored in 1968 due to their racist overtones and their negative depiction of black people. These cartoons form the basis of so many controversial topics ranging from racism to censorship issues to use of parody and the media, that it honestly would take many…
(I did not forget. I just pressed play on the next episode of Trailer Park Boys. I am not sorry.) Five years. 365 days, but five times of that. An avalanche of minutes, hours, weeks, memories, and times that I shampooed my hair twice during a single shower because the act has become so automatic that…
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens in now familiar territory: our intrepid band of heroic space-goofs trade some quips, tease out some deeper emotional conflicts, and lay the smack on a cosmic slug to some super sounds of the 70s while Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) shakes what he’s got. It’s moments like these that made…
In general, Disney makes good films. And Moana is another in a line of pretty awesome movies that the company has been releasing recently. I feel like lately Disney has been breaking down its own cliches in an extremely on-the-nose, yet strangely refreshing way. First there was Frozen which essentially tore down its “Disney Princess”…
Rooster Illusion 